It’s less than 48 hours since I posted my last article “Free YouTube Video Downloader & Path To FLV Finder Tool” and today I noticed that the download tool has stopped working! At first I thought it was a code glitch, but no I checked everything out and it was clean? then I tried uploading the same scripts to a second server and yes it worked, I even tried the same scripts on a third server and it worked…. and one last shot was to try the scripts on a different domain but same server “Bump!” no joy…. 
Could it be that YouTube/Google tracked the script page because of the Adsense banner? (maybe)… and the fact that a heap of trackback links from crap blog scrapers featured the article….. What to do now… Should I remove the scripts and links to it…. I’m not sure?
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#1 by robert on January 25, 2008 - 11:59 am
Yep, it’s not working alright. Any errors in the apache log files?
#2 by Kieran McCarthy on January 25, 2008 - 8:42 pm
Robert… was wondering if you’d take a look at the apache log files for me when you get the time, I don’t find this an easy task to do?
#3 by Liam Farrell on January 29, 2008 - 7:49 pm
Hi Kieran try usin this site it is very good for converting and downloading hope it helps !!!
Liam.
http://www.tube2mp3.de/index.php
#4 by Kieran McCarthy on January 30, 2008 - 10:38 am
Liam … thanks for the link…. If you know of any downloader that also provide the direct flv path to youtube video please post up links here.
thanks for stopping by…
#5 by robert on January 30, 2008 - 11:19 am
Kieran,
I use a Firefox Plugin called DownloadHelper. Works for all kinds of media. Videos, images, etc.
It’s available on the mozilla addons site.
#6 by Kieran McCarthy on January 30, 2008 - 11:35 am
Robert … thanks for the link… yes DownloadHelper is a handy plugin
#7 by Steve on February 3, 2008 - 5:11 pm
All in one video bookmarklet downloader has ceased downloading from youtube as well.. Other people have had similar issues with their youtube download programs also. It must be something new done by youtube to try and stop downloads. However, http://keepvid.com Still works fine though..
#8 by Kieran McCarthy on February 4, 2008 - 9:40 am
Steve … thanks for the post… I suppose it was only time before YouTube changed their backend system to stop us writing scripts to downloads the videos… I believe Youtube are blocking the IP address of any script found that allows a user to download videos, I have done a test and found that my same scripts work fine on another server, I dont want to post a link to it as the YouTube police might track it’s location.
Yes Keepvid still works for now I spoke about it in my other post…
read it here >> How to get the direct url path to .flv video files on YouTube for Free
#9 by Pjokk on February 20, 2008 - 4:57 am
Keepvid direct URL stopped working for me so I found an another way to get the direct url for independent streaming and an easy way to download via Mozilla Firefox. It looks comprehensive but it is very easy and fast when you get into it.
1. First install Clear Cache toolbar button, an addon that will be handy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1801
(Clearing Cache will make it easy to find your DL/direct entry in step 6)
2. Open Firefox.
4. Use clear cache button.
3. Paste video URL in address line to load and start your video. (Like this one http://youtube.com/watch?v=AkJf0md1kG8)
4. After it starts to play, type and enter: “about:cache” in the address line.
5. Under “Disk cache device” find “List Cache Entries” and click it.
6. Locate and click entry URL looking something like this: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&t=OEgsToPDskIUPp-t7WeWjZr5soxTNsT-
7. Among other points, you will find:
key: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&t=OEgsToPDskIUPp-t7WeWjZr5soxTNsT-
Click it to download flv
…and
To get direct URL, use:
Location: http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&origin=dal-v141.dal.youtube.com&signature=6781F7B042F2AC2FB9534CB7AB9C54C178CF0226.4AE8DEB575183BDF629B0F08EA2C316F6B6DAB5D&ip=85.166.91.175&ipbits=16&expire=1203498182&key=1
…mark out direct URL and it will look like this:
http://dal-v141.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8
http://dal-v141.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8.flv
This one is a google video and is little more tricky because I had to replace “cache.googlevideo.com” with “dal-v141.dal.youtube.com”
Usally it looks like this:
Location: http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas&signature=3ECE1F8125952A3A55DC7306E14624D2DABB0393.753B222559E7A7AF194919D7F0943F0717A25441&ip=85.166.91.175&ipbits=16&expire=1203502796&key=1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
…and marks out:
http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas
http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas.flv
#10 by Kieran McCarthy on February 20, 2008 - 12:58 pm
Pjokk.. Thank you for posting up this very detailed tutorial… I will let you know how I get on with it… I’m sure it will be of great help to others…
#11 by Youtuber on January 26, 2010 - 9:33 am
Another option would be to use Easy Youtube Video Downloader